XI. Diary of Travels in France and Spain. By the Rev. Francis XIII. Lectures delivered at Literary and Mechanics' Institutions. XIV. Memoirs on Syria, &c., &c., &c. By Charles Fiott Barker, formerly Secretary to Mr Consul-General Barker XVI. Edwin the Fair and Isaac Comnenus. By Henry Taylor, author of Philip Von Artevelde XVII. Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver. By XVIII. The Wisdom and Genius of Edmund Burke, illustrated by Extracts from his Writings and Speeches; with a Summary of his Life. By Peter Burke, Esq., of the Inner Temple, ART. I. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the years 1843-1845, to ascertain the Fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain Co- nolly. By the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D.-The Bokhara Victims. By Captain Grover, Unattached, F.R.S.-Edin- burgh Review, July, 1845.-Lord Aberdeen and the Ameer II. Mount Sorel. By the Author of "Two Old Men's Tales.- Zoe. By Geraldine E. Jewsbury.-Look to the End; or, The Bennets Abroad. By Mrs. Ellis.-St. James. By W. H. Ainsworth.-Maids of Honour.-Whitehall. By the Author of "Whitefriars."-Sybil; or, The Two Nations. By B. Disraeli, M.P., "Author of Coningsby."-The White Slave. By the Author of "Revelations of Russia."-The Improvisatore; translated from the Danish of Andersen. Elberfeld.-Gedichte von Wilhelm Wackernagel, Zürich.— Gedichte eines Lebendigen, von Georg Herwegh, Zürich. 304 III. Commedie Scelte di Carlo Goldoni.-Mémoires de Goldoni. Pour servir à l'Histoire de sa Vie, et de son Théâtre. Ecrits par lui-même.-Teatro Scelto Italiano. Tratte da Goldoni, Albergati, Sografi, De Rossi, Giraud, Nota, &c. . 333 IV. A Report on the Commercial Tariffs and Regulations of the several States of Europe and America. Together with the Commercial Treaties between England and Foreign Coun- tries. Part Fourteenth.-Portugal. Drawn up by J. Mac- gregor, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Trade, by order of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade and Plantations. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty, April, 1844.-Remarks on Mr. Macgregor's Fourteenth Report to her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade. By Theophilus Isles Smith, Esq. V. The Life of Beethoven, including his Correspondence with his Friends, &c.-Beethoven's Concertos Complete.-The VI. The Dramatic Works of R. H. Horne.-Death of Marlowe.- System of Legislation, Administration and Policy of Russia in 1844. By a Russian Statesman.)-The White Slave; X. Speech of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., in the House of Commons, 14th February, 1845.-Official Ac- counts of the Board of Trade relating to the Trade and Na- vigation of the United Kingdom, 1845.—8 & 9 Vict. c. 37, intituled "An Act to regulate the Issue of Bank Notes in Ireland) and to regulate the Repayment of certain Sums advanced by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland for the Public Service." 21st July, 1845.-8 & 9 XI. Scriptural Communion with God on the Holy Bible, arranged in Historical and Chronological Order in such manner that the Books, Chapters, Psalms, Prophecies, &c. may be read as one connected History in the Words of the Authorized Translation. Newly divided into Sections for Families and Individuals, with Introductions and Prayers and Notes for the Student and Inquirer. By the Rev. George Townsend, XIV. The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. A New Edition. XV. The Ideal of the English Church. A Sketch, by the Rev. R. Montgomery, M. A., Author of "Luther," "The Gospel XVI. The Astrologer's Daughter.-An Historical Novel, in three XVIII. The Ocean Flower, a Poem, &c. &c. By T. M. Hughes XIX. Travels in Western Africa among the Soosoos, Bulloms, &c. being the first undertaken by the Church Missionary So- THE NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW, OR Home, Foreign, and Colonial JOURNAL. ART. I.-1. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. London: 1844. 2. Indications of the Creator: Extracts bearing upon Natural Theology, from the History and the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. By William Whewell, D.D., Master of Trinity College, and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. London: 1845. 3. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1840 and 1841. Professor Owen on British Fossil Reptiles. GEOLOGISTS have long been convinced that their science cannot lead them to the beginning of things, and the construction of systems of cosmogony, abandoned by them, has passed into other hands. From time to time some knight errant is seen entering the arena of the geological section of the British Association, throwing down the gauntlet of defiance to all its chivalry, declaring that they who have spent their lives in studying the structure of the earth's crust know nothing about it, arrogating to himself an intuitive knowledge of the subject, and dignifying his crude conceits with the title of a vindication of the Bible against geology. The invariable fate of such Quixotic adventurers has hitherto been to receive a severe chastisement at the hands of Professor Sedgwick. Twice we have seen this administered during the last five years, though fifteen have elapsed since he felt it necessary to notice from the chair of the Geological Society a work put forth by one of that body, under the title of a New System of Geology, in which the revolutions of the earth and of animated nature are reconciled at once to modern science and to sacred hisVOL, VI.-NO, I. B tory. He noticed this book to denounce it as a work in which the worst violations of philosophic rule, by the daring union of things incongruous, had been adopted by the author from others, and, at the same time, decorated with new phantasies of his own. We trust that the same powerful arm will be raised against the monster of cosmogony, whenever and wherever it shall appear; whether it arise from within or from without the ranks of geology; whether it come in the guise of an angel of light, professing to find in the Sacred Writings a revelation of physical truth, which it was not their object to reveal; or whether it come in the garb of philosophy, pretending to have vaulted by bold conjecture from our present imperfect knowledge of natural phenomena and natural laws, up to the highest laws of causation." The first of the books prefixed to this article is of the latter character. It offers a theory, not of the earth only, but of the universe. It peoples with creatures of flesh and blood every sphere of the remotest firmament which the astronomer can faintly descry, as well as every planet of the solar system. "We see, it tells us, "that matter has originally been diffused in one mass, of which the spheres are portions, consequently inorganic matter must be presumed to be everywhere the same, although probably with differences in the proportions of the ingredients in different globes, and also some difference of conditions. Out of a certain number of the elements of inorganic matter are composed organic bodies, both vegetable and animal. Such must be the rule in Jupiter and Sirius as it is here. We therefore are all but certain that herbaceous and ligneous fibre, that flesh and blood, are the constituents of the organic beings of all those spheres which are yet the seats of life.' While opinions thus confident are expressed respecting the origin of the universe, and the nature of the inhabitants of its most distant orbs, a beginning is assigned to the human race which cannot be true, unless that Record be false, whose object is to reveal the moral history of mankind, in which their origin and early physical history are involved. The work has attracted much notice, and has had an extensive circulation. Much of its success may be attributed to its popular style, the tone of earnestness with which it is written, the skill with which that which would most startle the reader is long kept out of sight, and not a little to the mystery in which its author is shrouded. It is calculated to do much mischief among those who may derive their sole knowledge of the sciences of which it treats from this source, by shaking in some their belief in the most important doctrines of revealed religion, and by raising in others prejudice and disgust against the sciences which they find |